Cotterell, Ryan

25 publications

NeurIPS 2025 Are Language Models Efficient Reasoners? a Perspective from Logic Programming Andreas Opedal, Yanick Zengaffinen, Haruki Shirakami, Clemente Pasti, Mrinmaya Sachan, Abulhair Saparov, Ryan Cotterell, Bernhard Schölkopf

NeurIPS 2025 Better Estimation of the Kullback--Leibler Divergence Between Language Models Afra Amini, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell

NeurIPS 2025 Characterizing the Expressivity of Fixed-Precision Transformer Language Models Jiaoda Li, Ryan Cotterell

ICLR 2025 Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It Julian Minder, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2025 From Language Models over Tokens to Language Models over Characters Tim Vieira, Benjamin Lebrun, Mario Giulianelli, Juan Luis Gastaldi, Brian Dusell, John Terilla, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Ryan Cotterell

ICLR 2025 Gumbel Counterfactual Generation from Language Models Shauli Ravfogel, Anej Svete, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2025 Language Models over Canonical Byte-Pair Encodings Tim Vieira, Tianyu Liu, Clemente Pasti, Yahya Emara, Brian Dusell, Benjamin Lebrun, Mario Giulianelli, Juan Luis Gastaldi, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Ryan Cotterell

TMLR 2025 On the Challenges and Opportunities in Generative AI Laura Manduchi, Clara Meister, Kushagra Pandey, Robert Bamler, Ryan Cotterell, Sina Däubener, Sophie Fellenz, Asja Fischer, Thomas Gärtner, Matthias Kirchler, Marius Kloft, Yingzhen Li, Christoph Lippert, Gerard de Melo, Eric Nalisnick, Björn Ommer, Rajesh Ranganath, Maja Rudolph, Karen Ullrich, Guy Van den Broeck, Julia E Vogt, Yixin Wang, Florian Wenzel, Frank Wood, Stephan Mandt, Vincent Fortuin

ICLR 2025 Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo João Loula, Benjamin LeBrun, Li Du, Ben Lipkin, Clemente Pasti, Gabriel Grand, Tianyu Liu, Yahya Emara, Marjorie Freedman, Jason Eisner, Ryan Cotterell, Vikash Mansinghka, Alexander K. Lew, Tim Vieira, Timothy J. O'Donnell

CVPR 2025 Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Serge Belongie, Ryan Cotterell, Nico Lang, Stella Frank

ICLR 2025 The Foundations of Tokenization: Statistical and Computational Concerns Juan Luis Gastaldi, John Terilla, Luca Malagutti, Brian DuSell, Tim Vieira, Ryan Cotterell

ICLR 2025 Training Neural Networks as Recognizers of Formal Languages Alexandra Butoi, Ghazal Khalighinejad, Anej Svete, Josef Valvoda, Ryan Cotterell, Brian DuSell

ICLR 2025 Variational Best-of-N Alignment Afra Amini, Tim Vieira, Elliott Ash, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2024 Do Language Models Exhibit the Same Cognitive Biases in Problem Solving as Human Learners? Andreas Opedal, Alessandro Stolfo, Haruki Shirakami, Ying Jiao, Ryan Cotterell, Bernhard Schölkopf, Abulhair Saparov, Mrinmaya Sachan

NeurIPS 2024 On Affine Homotopy Between Language Encoders Robin S. M. Chan, Reda Boumasmoud, Anej Svete, Yuxin Ren, Qipeng Guo, Zhijing Jin, Shauli Ravfogel, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schölkopf, Mennatallah El-Assady, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2024 Principled Gradient-Based MCMC for Conditional Sampling of Text Li Du, Afra Amini, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Holden Lee, Jason Eisner, Ryan Cotterell

ICML 2024 Representation Surgery: Theory and Practice of Affine Steering Shashwat Singh, Shauli Ravfogel, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Ryan Cotterell, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

ICMLW 2024 The Pupil Becomes the Master: Eye-Tracking Feedback for Tuning LLMs Samuel Kiegeland, David Robert Reich, Ryan Cotterell, Lena Ann Jäger, Ethan Wilcox

NeurIPSW 2024 Variational Best-of-N Alignment Afra Amini, Tim Vieira, Elliott Ash, Ryan Cotterell

AAAI 2023 A Latent-Variable Model for Intrinsic Probing Karolina Stanczak, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Adina Williams, Ryan Cotterell, Isabelle Augenstein

ICML 2023 Controlled Text Generation with Natural Language Instructions Wangchunshu Zhou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Ethan Wilcox, Ryan Cotterell, Mrinmaya Sachan

NeurIPS 2023 LEACE: Perfect Linear Concept Erasure in Closed Form Nora Belrose, David Schneider-Joseph, Shauli Ravfogel, Ryan Cotterell, Edward Raff, Stella Biderman

ICLR 2023 On the Usefulness of Embeddings, Clusters and Strings for Text Generation Evaluation Tiago Pimentel, Clara Isabel Meister, Ryan Cotterell

NeurIPS 2023 Structured Voronoi Sampling Afra Amini, Li Du, Ryan Cotterell

AISTATS 2023 The Ordered Matrix Dirichlet for State-Space Models Niklas Stoehr, Benjamin J. Radford, Ryan Cotterell, Aaron Schein